I make them angry
Finally got the replacement kitchen sink installed, no thanks to the folks at Home Despot-- Saturday night wanted to get adapter plumbing to hook new faucet to old fittings, which were apparently made by the ancient ones, by the puzzled reactions I got at the store-
It's unfortunate for me that I am not privy to the secret rituals of plumbers, I don't know the lingo, hell I can't even sex them- Guy at Home Despot gave up in disgust, sent in a pinch hitter who was yelling at me because it was almost closing time, and he wanted to know the gender of my pipe fitting- Kept yelling, MALE OR FEMALE??? MALE OR FEMALE?? I finally broke under the relentless pressure and admitted I DON'T KNOW! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW???
Anyway, they wanted me to rip out the shutoffs too, but I was afraid that it would disturb the whole ancient plumbing system, and I would have smirking plumbers in here, one to fix my botched sink installation and the other to agree with the Mrs. that I should have called a professional in the first place.
But I digress- As I was walking out, I saw the step-down fittings I needed, in a $20 dishwasher installation kit, which I bought, and I was actually able to hook up the hot water.
The cold water valve was another sight, it had a weird corrogated flexible pipe soldered to it, which I promptly broke. Being ashamed to return to Home Despot, I went to the other big box store in town, apparently Ace went out of business when they fired Joey Heatherton.
This guy seemed bitter about his lot in life, but he did steer me in the right direction and I got the correct shutoff valve, ("You want a 5/8 OD for that half inch pipe!" he snarled.) I still don't know my FIP from my OD, but the stainless steel sink is installed and already the Mrs. is noticing how dingy the counter surface looks.
It's unfortunate for me that I am not privy to the secret rituals of plumbers, I don't know the lingo, hell I can't even sex them- Guy at Home Despot gave up in disgust, sent in a pinch hitter who was yelling at me because it was almost closing time, and he wanted to know the gender of my pipe fitting- Kept yelling, MALE OR FEMALE??? MALE OR FEMALE?? I finally broke under the relentless pressure and admitted I DON'T KNOW! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW???
Anyway, they wanted me to rip out the shutoffs too, but I was afraid that it would disturb the whole ancient plumbing system, and I would have smirking plumbers in here, one to fix my botched sink installation and the other to agree with the Mrs. that I should have called a professional in the first place.
But I digress- As I was walking out, I saw the step-down fittings I needed, in a $20 dishwasher installation kit, which I bought, and I was actually able to hook up the hot water.
The cold water valve was another sight, it had a weird corrogated flexible pipe soldered to it, which I promptly broke. Being ashamed to return to Home Despot, I went to the other big box store in town, apparently Ace went out of business when they fired Joey Heatherton.
This guy seemed bitter about his lot in life, but he did steer me in the right direction and I got the correct shutoff valve, ("You want a 5/8 OD for that half inch pipe!" he snarled.) I still don't know my FIP from my OD, but the stainless steel sink is installed and already the Mrs. is noticing how dingy the counter surface looks.
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